weebull @weebull@qoto.org
Joined Dec 2022
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Foreign lobbyists make it way too easy for dictators to remain in power and influence US politics.
@andreagrandi @arialdo I agree with you, but I've also had this experience with Haskell.
Haskell changes the way you decompose problems. It almost forces you to abstract what you want to do from how you will do it. That's something which is viewed as good practice in a lot of languages, but often not done.
Global state isn't a thing, so you "perfect" working in the local scope. Again good practice in lots of languages, but even without going global, a lot of OO code abuses retained-state.
In Haskell have to become extremely comfortable with higher order functions. Python, for example, is very capable in this area, but if all you've ever done is python you probably won't naturally fall into using those features of the language.
I find Haskell has made it easy for me to work on a class of problems that I found very difficult before. It increased my set of tools and whilst many languages have those tools, Haskell forced me to understand why I want them.
@BoydStephenSmithJr @cykonot @Wraithe I was saddened that in the discussion following the recent Disney case, many lawyers saw arbitration as preferable for their plaintiff clients. Their reasoning was that due to the backlogs in the court, getting paid off was more likely to be a "positive" outcome. (i.e. you wouldn't end up going bankrupt and dropping the case).
In their world it seemed like courts didn't exist for normal people.
@alanferrier Glad it's not just me thinking this.
Stop telling me what you're not doing, and tell me what these sacrifices will enable in the long run.
@vwbusguy @isaackuo @cstross @ObbieZ @straphanger Fortunately those are pressurised kegs. So just expel the beer in the direction opposing your motion.
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It's simple, Prime Minister: X is for people who think that Britain is about to lock up everyone who isn't woke, Bluesky is for people who think that sounds like a terrific idea, and Threads is for people who have no idea what either of the others are on about.
Truth Social is for people who think they run the Internet, Nostr is for people who think they should run the internet, and Mastodon is for people who actually do run the Internet.
& 4Chan people don’t care as long as they have big tits.
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I think I found the funniest version of "The tortoise and the hare" tale type just now 😄 From Japan.
It is about a centipede and a slug running a race to a shrine. Obviously the centipede gets there first, but when the slug arrives, centipede is still taking his sandals off, so slug enters the shrine first.
😆
@davidallengreen The recent JSO protester sentencing remarks were useful IMHO.
After reading it I can see why he went to the level he did. I'm not sure if I agree but...
- His focus was on the conspiracy to commit the crime and the intended level of disruption.
- They were all repeat offenders serving sentences already which were absorbed into this ruling.
- Every reason to think they'd reoffend with no consideration to their convictions. Hence no mitigation.
He was given no reason to be lenient and the current legislation supports him.
Now... Is the current legislation too extreme? That's a discussion worth having.
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What is the most annoying feature on other platforms that you think Codeberg (or #Forgejo) does better?
@Codeberg Not using cloud based services, but comparing self-hosted Gitlab and Forgejo is night and day.
- Gitlab has opaque database files for everything. Forgejo has plain git repos and SQL databases.
- Gitlab locks basic features like enforcing PR approvals behind a paid license.
- Bloat. Gitlab is trying to be a forge, a CI system, a project management tool, and 20 other things. Forgejo is a forge (but I worry that it's taking on CI now).
On the negative side, forgejo need to complete their API. Many things in their data model are not accessible through it.
@astrid Now that this is closed, I'll ask another question in response.
In base ten (decimal) what is your favourite number? 5, A, F, 3C
There was only one answer to your question because only "1" is the only base-2 number given. For those answers to make sense the question would be " What is your favourite power of 2?"
@DamonHD @isleofmandan @neil I think I knew at some point, but remind me...
Call termination charges?
@neil 19/F/in your area
@alexisbushnell I honestly don't think they are scared of trans people. They are scared that they are being asked to give up their segregated spaces FROM MEN. It's not about sharing with people who. Identify as trans in good faith. It is about sharing with people who identify as trans in bad faith.
Now you can argue if it's a rational fear, but it doesn't matter. The fear is real, and so unless legislators accommodate that fear they'll get huge pushback.
@fortyseven Indeed. I struggled to enjoy S4 just because so much of the script was straight out of the newspapers. It's depressing.
I'm hopeful S5's dystopia exceeds our own by enough that it becomes satire more than documentary again.
@johnpeart So about 10%. Last census had the UK with a 3% proportion identifying as LGBTQ+.
Maybe the census is underreporting in some way, but 3x seems like it could be overrepresented. No?
@aetataureate @grimalkina
Well it doesn't make sense to them. Their thinking is that the author would obviously retain copyright on their work. It's absurd to them that anyone would give away their rights just to be published in a paper journal and then have to buy them back.
And it is absurd.
Joined Dec 2022
